unenlightened

Not sure what you are claiming I'm saying that is so funny. But never mind. Freud claims that the 'unconscious' speaks and acts. It speaks in 'Freudia...

The ego is the self that is aware of itself, sure. The self that the self that is aware of itself is not aware of is the unconscious, but the unconsci...

Interesting language here; id is 'it' as distinct/opposed from/to ego 'I'. That is to say that the unconscious is other than myself - the self I am co...

Yes. That was my point; that even amongst young lads, profit is a very much a minority consideration. Excitement, rebellion, revenge for perceived wro...

Murder, rape, littering, speeding, drug-taking, are not in general motivated by maximising utility.This analysis might work for psychopathic economist...

My arse. Without a functioning arse, one is obliged to talk shit. It's really not worth arguing whether a chair without legs is better or worse than o...

I thought it was specifically dignity and rights. But I am a mere foreigner, correct me.

Well not entirely. Even Trump sometimes blinks at the gassing of foreigners; though as a theory it stinks. But if things were as they ought to be, the...

And being right is a very very attractive thing.

Nah. Rules are what the collective does, and then the first rule should be that the rules apply to everyone equally. Justice as the foundation of soci...

I'm more than happy to make problems for it. X-)

When you try to measure the immeasurable, or compare the incomparable, confusion results. When one gets old, things stop working properly, and start h...

Nice people. Not you of course. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alone-through-iran-1144-miles-of-trust#/

One of the best justifications for violence is that the other chap is more violent, and has to be stopped. If I wanted to find out who was more violen...

I wouldn't know about that. I heard it from this Jesus guy, but I never examined his tackle.

If everyone was actually equal, there would be no great virtue in treating them so. One does not need the existence of equity in order to believe in i...

And some claim that the new Russia is a staunch ally, so that ended well.

Either more amendments can be added, or they cannot. I'm no expert in constitutional law, so you'll have to enlighten me. But if it is possible, it is...

There has to be enlightenment, in order for me to unenlightened, and there has to be God, in order for you lot to be mere mortals. You are mere mortal...

The Kochs are involved in a credible orchestrated move to change the constitution, which stands a pretty good chance of succeeding. Exactly how they o...

Wouldn't argue with that. Nor that the Republican party is divided. But pointing out anti-democratic forces is not quite the same a s predicting the n...

Nor was it claimed. Merely, apropos the topic, that corporations deform democracy, in this case to the point of adjusting the constitution. However, s...

Got a basis for that? Got some evidence to show that show the information is false? Or are you just vomiting?

And in case you thought the constitution would protect you... http://billmoyers.com/story/kochs-to-rewrite-constitution/

The game of 'who's more violent than me?' is a violent game.

I'd like to try and do that a little. The mark, the target of one's moral action is the beam in one's own eye, not the mote in another's. It is conven...

I think we are irrational. And this understanding allows me to understand evil intent. I agree with you in one sense, but it becomes an abuse of langu...

And a forum to pontificate in. But bread - Make bread, make love, every day.

I wonder if you might agree with Maurice Nicoll, that to sin is to miss the mark, whereas evil is not even to aim for the mark?

Progress, eh. Every day, in every way, we're getting better and better. Or possibly not. Philosophy is the rock against which progress is measured. Oh...

You will learn to love big brother. Refusal to answer is an answer, but the wrong answer, and you will be corrected.

Indeed. But it is hard to tell the difference between God's revelation, and my intuition, either from my own point of view or from another's. In which...

Not so. God can be real but inaccessible. Since you will not answer, I will suggest that experience is the only guide, and experience is only of creat...

They could. In fact, if you will excuse the boasting, I myself have never chosen to poison my neighbour.

You mean we make it up.

That is an odd conception of free will you have going there. I have coffee every morning because I like coffee in the morning, but I could have tea; I...

How?

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one can escape by pulling up the ladder of language in silence.

Dude. Slow down a bit, use the quote facility, and write in English. I really have no idea what you're saying, let alone what of what I'm saying you d...

Truth is not democratic. As you clearly already know. Ah, I get it now, you expect us all to disagree with you, thus proving you right. Right?

That's what you claim the freewill defence claims; I claim that this is either a misunderstanding, or the defence fails, because it relies on exactly ...

I don't think any freewill theodicist thinks murder is justifiable, or not evil. Perhaps you could cite one?

You can't simply dismiss my definition without providing another one. Oh, wait you just have, damn. Then I have to admit I don't know what you're talk...

I have a reasoned argument based on my definition of evil. When someone comes up with another definition of evil, I'll consider it. But it is not real...

Yes. I'm not going to argue about that, or cite the bible; take it or leave it.

They're wrong then. Or possibly they are attempting to speak for God, which I think is unwise. But they might be saying, I hope they are saying, that ...

That certain voluntary acts of harm are justified by no means implies that they invariably are. Do you think that? I've not come across anyone that th...

No. I'm defining evil as a voluntary unjustified act of harm. Harm that is involuntary or justified is not evil. Do you have a better conception?

I'm not treading close, I'm jumping in with both feet. But I'm not saying that free will is the justification of evil, nor that good is the justificat...

You really need me to argue that? I don't think I can. Take a look around.